Abstract

Drama

At last, after many barren weeks, it is a play worth writing about. It is true that artist Arnold Bennett in a comedy, "The Title," belongs rather to dramatic journalism than to dramatic literature. It does not look destiny in the face or probe the depths of character. It cannot even be taken as a very serious picture of manners. What it does is to express, with a great deal of good-humored wit, the feelings of all sensible men upon one of the minor scandals of public life the reckless ladling-out of honors. Arthur Culver, Controller of Accounts, has been offered a baronetcy, his daughter, aged twenty-one, and his son, aged seventeen, are very modern young people, and threaten him with their sternest disapproval if he accepts. He himself is quite of their mind and is determined to decline the honor.